Call for Registration at Thai Border

The Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) has submitted a letter to the National Election Committee (NEC), asking them to help Cambodian migrant workers in Thailand to register to vote in communes along the Thai border. The letter, signed by acting party president Kem Sokha yesterday and sent to NEC president Sik Bun Hok, said Cambodian workers employed in Thailand have come to the border almost every day trying to register to vote after hearing appeals from the NEC and government leaders.
 

Due to money and time constraints, almost all are unable to travel to their home provinces from the border. Instead, they have asked government officials whether they could register to vote in communes along the border. The letter says border officials made registration efforts difficult and they had tried to dissuade people from registering to vote in next year’s elections after a number of Cambodian migrant workers asked to be allowed to register in communes near their workplaces in Thailand.
 

“We request that the National Election Committee intervene for Cambodian workers who are working in Thailand and want voter registration at polling stations located in communes near the Cambodia-Thailand border in accordance with the law,” the letter says. The CNRP says that on July 9 and on Sunday, about 600 Cambodian migrant workers in Thailand came to register to vote in commune offices along the Cambodia-Thailand border in Battambang and Banteay Meanchey provinces.

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